Re: BBS / mini social network network software

On Tuesday 16 Apr 2013 22:20:34 Lisha Sterling wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Have you looked at Drupal? I've used it for many professional projects over
> the course of the last 8 or 9 years. This past weekend at Hackathon for
> Disaster Response we built two different systems -- major apps for disaster
> response -- on the Drupal framework. (To give you some context, the same
> group met in September, and software we built there was used during
> Hurricane Sandy relief less than two months later and some of it has been
> adopted for "official" use by FEMA in the US.)
> 
> Drupal 7 is fantastic. The CMS out of the box comes with forums, blogs and
> user pages. If you'd like help picking out some of the best third party
> modules for the other functionality you need, just send me an email
> off-list and I'll happily give you a hand.
> 

Yep I'd agree that drupal sounds like a good match

The open outreach distribution of drupal (single install of drupal and lots of 
modules, not a linux distribution)  packages up the majority of what you asked 
for:

  http://openoutreach.org/

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Kenny MM0ZUN